ROME (ITALPRESS) – The watchword: coopetition. The crasis between “cooperation” and “competition” is, in fact, the winning strategy to face the many challenges of a world undergoing rapid technological and geopolitical transformation. This is the point made in the Strategic Report 2024 by the Centro Economia Digitale (CED), one of Italy’s leading think tanks, which was presented in Rome in the Aldo Moro Room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The CED’s research, based on a sample of about 2,000 global companies, shows that Coopetition is growing strongly: there are 15,000 cases of collaboration between competing companies registered from 2003 to 2022; the number of collaborative patents has increased by 159 percent, with a share that has almost doubled in the total number of patents (+82 percent).
This trend is also found in the mobility sector, as remarked in the report’s introduction signed by FS Group CEO Stefano Donnarumma, who in his speech emphasized how the value of coopetition is also decisive in the field of transportation, where technological evolution and the digital revolution are profoundly changing approach and characteristics.
“A winning strategy can be to blend the two elements in the coopetition paradigm in order to achieve significant benefits not only for the players operating in the system, but also for the community and the environment,” highlighted the CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato according to whom “the new challenges in the field of new transportation systems such as magnetic levitation systems, Hyperloop, Vertical Take-Off and Landing Vehicles, Automated and Shared Transport Systems, Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility, Mobility or Platforms as a Service, Mobility as a Feature, new propulsion systems using hydrogen or batteries, the new innovative development criteria based on sustainable mobility, require an additional innovative step. Sharing technologies and expertise can lead to creative solutions that neither party could have achieved alone.”
It is precisely in this relationship between the various players in the system that Donnarumma identifies the “meaning of the collaboration with the CED, a reference of excellence that offers FS a great opportunity to test the co-opetitive approach with some of the largest national and international business and industrial realities.”
The presentation of the Digital Economy Center’s Strategic Report 2024 was opened by institutional greetings from Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Maria Tripodi and was attended by institutional and business leaders. In a panel discussion entitled “Coopetition for Technological Innovation for Italy, Europe and the World,” Mario Tartaglia, head of FS Research Centre, also spoke.
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